tar .vs. cpio - (nf)

[Barry Margolin]

In article <226 at haddock.UUCP> johnl at haddock.UUCP writes:
>  - reading file names from stdin is a feature, not a bug.  You can use
>    find to enumerate just the files you want rather than having to dump
>    everything in a directory tree, e.g.
>
>	$ find somedir -mtime -14 -print | cpio -oB >/dev/rmt0
>
>    (dump only files modified within the last two weeks.)  Doing this
>    with tar is pretty hard.

It isn't really very hard:
	tar <options> `find ...`

Accepting file names on the command line is the Unix convention.

Note that I have no real opinion on the debate.  I have only used tar so
far.

In response to someone's mention of "tp", the predecessor to "tar": it
is still available in 4.2BSD.
-- 
    Barry Margolin
    ARPA: barmar at MIT-Multics
    UUCP: ..!genrad!mit-eddie!barmar